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Lucinda Flint Photography, a local photographer, is known for her stylish pet photography. With her work displayed around town in local vet offices and boutiques, you can’t miss the captivating shots of Lucinda Flint. We walked into her Northwest Las Vegas valley studio and saw the perfect setting for her creativity to come to play. Whatever your vision may be, there is no doubt that Lucinda can help execute it flawlessly.

Lucinda specializes in pet photos and they are super cute! If you have a cuddly one, you should consider taking photos with them. Family pets deserve a spot on the wall, don’t you think?

Lucinda also masters maternity and senior photo shoots. She can make anyone comfortable with her personality and charm. With Lucinda a session is just like spending the day with a good girlfriend, who happens to be amazing behind the camera. The artistic images she takes will help create memorable photos for you and your family to hold forever. Lucinda is passionate about her work and she will be sure to light the perfect moment.

We were fortunate to have Lucinda as our sponsor photographer for the 5th annual style with a cause and would like to thank her and her team for such a wonderful job! She and her team gave so much time and effort to capture our event and make everyone shine. Women Empowering Women… her photographs exemplify our motto. Thank you Lucinda!

“LUCINDA IS A TRUE ARTIST AND HER TALENT IS UNMATCHED.” – Stephanie and Jim

She always told me that strays found her. It’s true. Nearly all of her cats have found their way into her home and her heart. She never went looking for rescues, because eventually one would show up when the time was right. After every animal I’ve ever known her to have has crossed over the Rainbow Bridge, I’d wonder or ask if she’d be looking for another. The answer was never a direct no, but more like an undecided acceptance of whatever was to come. So, that’s how she ends up with new pets. It’s like there was this glowing, soft light that only strays could see, that promised a soft word, a gentle pet, dinner and a place to sleep.

Strays like me.

If you were to ask her how this always seems to happen, she would tell you it’s the Angels. Her Angels, my Angels, all of our Angels. She would tell you that Angels are always there, guiding us and creating serendipity. Well, she’d say it more purely than that. Because that’s precisely what her heart is, pure.

I strayed into her home in 2001, a cleverly orchestrated move by my social worker, Amy. The plan wasn’t for me to call her “mom”, or for her to give me away at my wedding seven years later, or for me to tell everyone I was Armenian since she was, or for her friends to know me as her daughter.

It wasn’t easy, especially for her. If she were writing this, she would probably roll her eye and say “Well, yea! I thought I was just getting a roommate!” Then she would say “I love you, Anusheek” and give me a kiss on the cheek. To document in writing those awkward first years of her unexpectedly navigating the raising of a teenager would oversimplify her incredible efforts of the soul. And, now, none of that matters. All that matters is she’s my mom, and I’m her daughter, and although it took me 17 years to find a mother, she was worth the wait.

It’s summer and crazy hot so I prefer to enhance my natural features with a dewy-natural look. I had the wonderful opportunity to have my makeup done at Sephora this week. I made a beauty reservation via Sephora.com and walked in with a specific goal in mind: glowing skin.

I was greeted and checked in for my reservation and waiting for the lovely Samantha in the “Beauty Studio”. I shared my goals of my visit and she asked me questions, such as which features did I want as the focal point or that I wanted to conceal? Throughout the experience, Samantha offered tips and advice on how to achieve a natural glow, and she would check on me if I was comfortable with either the amount of pressure she applied with beauty tools or the way the product was sitting on my face.

Skin Prep (It’s All In The Skin): The biggest secret to glowing skin, according to Samantha, was how you prepped your skin for makeup.

– Korres Greek Yoghurt-A three in one cleansing, toning, and makeup removing emulsion for a clean fresh base. The texture of this product was exactly like yogurt but it was lightweight and made my skin feel refreshed. This is one of Samantha’s favorite products that she swears by and it was my favorite product she used.

– Next she decided to work on my eyes first (always start with the eyes so you can clean up with foundation) and applied the Sephora Collection Colorful Shadow & Liner in 05 Beige to my lids as a neutral pop of color. She then set it with the Sephora Collection Colorful Eyeshadow in My Teddy Bear to mute down the cream base since the focus was my skin and not my eyes. These two colors together were absolutely gorgeous and would work on any olive or yellow-toned skin.

– Using Benefit’s Hoola Bronzer, Samantha taught me how to do a light contour for my face. Because I have a round-shaped face, she recommended that I apply bronzer at a sharp angle from the top of my ear towards the corners of my mouth to slim down my face and used Nars’s Blush in Satellite of Love to add some color to my skin.

– Finally, it was time to glow. Using Laura Mercier’s Face Illuminator Powder in Indiscretion, Samantha highlighted the areas where the sun would naturally hit my face. On the cheek bone, tip of my nose, brow bone, etc. This powder was amazing and made my skin look beautifully highlighted without looking greasy or oily.